Charlemagne 237
Charles Bridge, Prague 247
Charles I, King of England 175, 311
Charles II, King of England 97, 208
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor 247, 250
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 110, 190
Charlottenburg Palace 60, 62
Chateaubriand, Francois-René, vicomte de 33, 152
Cheapside, London 238
Chekhov, Anton 243, 338
Chesneau, Jean 142
Chicago 79–87
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron) 35
Chinatown, San Francisco 291
Chiu T’ang shu 138
Christmas 337, 338
Christmas Carol, A (Charles Dickens) 267
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem 147, 150, 151
Cion, Laurentius 111
Circular Quay, Sydney 300
Clark, Eleanor 270
Clavijo, Ruy González de 283
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne see Twain, Mark
Cleopatra 17, 18, 19, 330
Cold War 67, 334
Colosseum, Rome 265, 269, 271
Constantine, Emperor 146, 148, 262, 269
Constantinople see Istanbul
Cooper, James Fenimore 218
Cortés, Hernán 190, 192
Coryat, Thomas 237
Coryat’s Crudities (Thomas Coryat) 237
Crown of Thorns 236
Crusades 147, 149, 153, 234
Ctesiphon 48
Cultural Revolution (China) 50, 122
Custine, Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de 201, 277
Czechoslovakia 248
Dadu see Beijing
Dalai Lama 156, 157, 159, 160
Damascus 7, 88–96, 284
Danckaerts, Jasper 225
Danseh 74
Dante Alighieri 271
Danube river 333, 334
Danzig 23
‘Death in the Soul’ (Albert Camus) 251
Demoiselles d’Avignon (Pablo Picasso) 244
Denon, Vivant 17
Description of Greece (Pausanias) 32
Detroit 80
Diaghilev, Sergei 280
Dicaearchus of Messana 31
Dickens, Charles 227, 267
Diplomat in Japan, A (Ernest Mason Satow) 312
Djenne 306, 307
Doge, Venice 323, 325
Dome of the Rock 147, 151
Dublin 97–106
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester 21
Dwight, Theodore 345
Earthquake 111, 293, 315
East Germany 61
East India Company, British 207, 208, 209, 311
East India Company, Dutch (VOC) 26, 53, 117
Eastern Journey (John MacCallum Scott) 211
Edo see Tokyo
Edward I, King of England 235
Eiffel Tower 243
Eighth Avenue, New York 232
Eisengieserei, Berlin 64
El Retiro, Mexico City 196
Elgin Marbles 35
Elizabeth, Empress of Russia 274
Empire Windrush (ship) 164, 172
English Quay, St Petersburg 275
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel (Alexander Kinglake) 143
Erasmus, Desiderius 27
Erskine Inglis, Fanny see Calderón de la Barca, Frances
Escorial 174
Evelyn, John 325
Evening Post 176
Exposition Universelle, Paris 243
Faisal, King 48
Fascism 262, 270
Fatimid Dynasty 70
Fawcett, Percy 259
Ferdinand IV, King of Naples 217, 218
Fermor, Patrick Leigh 340
festivals 74
Fifth Avenue, New York 230
First Opium War 116
First World War 61, 71, 180, 235, 248
Flaubert, Gustave 74
Flecker, James Elroy 283
Fleming, Ian 135
Fleming, Peter 259
Florence 107–15
Florence Cathedral 110
Floridita restaurant, Havana 127
Following the Equator (Mark Twain) 300
Ford, Henry 87
Ford, Richard 176
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water (Mrs Howard Vincent) 82
Forum, Rome 266
Fourth Crusade 321
Franciabigio 114
Francis I, King of France 235
Francklin, William 208
Franco, Francisco 174
Fraser, G. S. 77
Fraser, Mary Crawford 315
Frederick III, Duke of Holstein 198
Frederick III, King of Hungary 334
Frederick the Great of Prussia 64, 344
Frederick William II of Prussia 60
French Revolution 235
Frenchman’s Walk through Ireland, A (de La Tocnaye) 101
Fu-lin 138
Galata, Istanbul 140
Gateway of India, Mumbai 212
Geographia (Strabo) 13
George IV, King of Great Britain 164, 168, 169
George St, Sydney 300
Georgetown, Washington 343
German Empire 61
Gibbon, Edward 266
Giotto di Bondone 110
Giudecca, Venice 327, 328
Giza 70, 71, 77
Godunov, Boris, Grand Duke 199
Goethe, Johann von 66, 326
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco 287
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco 294
‘Golden Road to Samarkand’ (James Elroy Flecker) 283
Golgotha 148
Government House, Sydney 301
Goyer, Peter de 53, 117
Graham, Maria 255
Granada 191
Grand Canal, Venice 327, 328
Grand Tour 8, 107, 109, 217, 235, 250, 322
Great Fire of Chicago 79, 82, 85
Greene, Graham 127, 194
Gregory the Great, Pope 264
Gris, Juan 245
Guangzhou 116–23
Guayaquil river 125
Guinness Brewery, Dublin 105, 106
Gur-I Amir Mausoleum, Samarkand 282
Gyantse 159
Habsburg dynasty 333
Hadrian, Emperor 30, 32, 146
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul 138, 140, 142, 165
Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco 294
Hajj 11, 181
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 24
Han dynasty 49
Harlem, New York 226
Harrer, Heinrich 160
Harun al-Rashid, caliph 40
Haussmann, Baron 235
Havana 124–29, 189
Hedin, Sven 159
Henry II, King of France 238
Henry III, King of Castile 283
Henry IV, King of France 237
Heracleides of Crete 31
Hermitage, St Petersburg 274
Herodotus 8
Hippodrome, Constantinople 139
Hiroshima 320
History of the Crusades, A (Steven Runciman) 145
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Edward Gibbon) 266
Hitler, Adolf 61, 64, 66, 67
Hoboken, New Jersey 226
Hodges, Ellen G. 290
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson 328
Holy Roman Empire 333
Holy Trinity Church, Chicago 81
Hong Kong 117, 130–36, 290
Hoskins, George 75
Hotel de Ville, Paris 240
Hudson river 230
Hulagu, Khan 40
Human Be-In 294–96
Humboldt, Alexander von 125
Hus, Jan 247
Ibn Battuta 8, 72, 89, 139, 182
Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi al-Dan 89, 90
IJ river 21, 26, 27
Il Milione (Marco Polo) 50
Illinois Central Railway Depot 81
Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land, The (Isabel Burton) 92
Innocent I
II, Pope 348
Innocents Abroad (Mark Twain) 241
Iraq 41
Ireland, Samuel 24
Islam 18, 19
Israel 147, 154
Istanbul (Constantinople, Byzantium) 11, 43, 137–45, 340
Italian Journey (Johann von Goethe) 326
Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, The 41, 139
Jacob, Max 245
Jakarta 53
James, Henry 331
Jeddah (Jidda) 184
Jericho 7
Jerusalem 8, 140, 146–55, 236
Jesus 146, 148, 150
Ji see Beijing
Jo Khang Temple, Lhasa 159
Johnson, Samuel 250
Journal from Japan (Marie Stopes) 316
Journal of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece (James Laird Patterson) 17
Julian, Emperor 8
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) 164
Justinian, Emperor 138
Kaaba 181, 185, 186, 187
Kangaroo (D. H. Lawrence) 302
Karkh 42, 43
Karlskirche, Vienna 341
Kawaguchi, Ekai 158
Kennan, George 67
Keyzer, Jakob de 53, 117
Kham 159
Khanbaliq see Beijing
Khusraw, Nasir 71, 148
King David Hotel, Jerusalem 154
Kinglake, Alexander 143
Kipling, Rudyard 83
Kleinseit, Prague 248, 249
Knossos 9
Kojimachi, Tokyo 315
Kok Saray, Samarkand 285
Königsberg 23
Kotel Hamaaravi, Jerusalem 155
Kremlin, Moscow 197, 199, 203
Kronstadt 277
Kublai Khan 50, 52
Kunitake, Kume 289
Kurfurstendamm, Berlin 65
Kusam ibn ‘Abbas 285
Kyoto 310, 311, 313
L’Enfant, Pierre Charles 342
Labaume, Eugène 200
La Boullaye Le Gouz, François de 98
Lamont, Corless 281
Lapo, Arnolfo di 110
Largo da Paco, Rio 257
Lassels, Richard 109
La Tocnaye, Jacques-Louis de Bourgrenet de 101
Lawless Roads, The (Graham Greene) 194
Lawrence, D. H. 302
Leningrad see St Petersburg
Leo Africanus 304
Leo III, Pope 269
Lewis, Norman 222
Lhasa 156–62
Liberties, Dublin 102, 105
Life in Mexico (Francis Calderón de la Barca) 192
Liffey river, Dublin 105
Lives of the Painters (Leon Battista Alberti) 110
London 9, 84, 163–73, 290
Lonely Londoners, The (Sam Selvon) 172
Louis Bonaparte 27
Louis IX (St Louis), King of France 234, 240, 348
Louis XIV, King of France 235
Louis XV, King of France 235
Louis XVI, King of France 235, 240
Louvre, Paris 234, 238, 240, 242
Ludovico of Varthema 183
Lutetia see Paris
Machu Picchu 9
Madison, James 346
Madrid 174–80
Mahratta empire 209
Malabar Hill, Mumbai 211, 214
Mangalore, siege of 209
Manhattan 225, 230
Manning, Thomas 157
Mansa, Suleyman 304
Mao Zedong 50, 59, 60
Maraini, Fosco 319
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France 238, 240
Mark Anthony 17
markets, bazaars 18, 91, 92–94, 143–45, 171, 190–91, 195, 200, 205, 221, 228, 248, 256, 258, 284, 290, 306, 324, 337
Marvels of Rome (Anon) 262
McCarthy, Mary 113
Mecca 11, 19, 72, 181–88
Mecca Flats, Chicago 85
Medina 182, 188
Meeting with Japan (Fosco Maraini) 319
Mehmed IV, Sultan 333, 334
Mehmet II, Sultan 143
Melbourne 297
Memoirs (Edward Gibbon) 266
Merwanjee, Curtsetjee 211
Mesopotamia 11, 41
Metternich, Prince and Princess 338
Mexican-American War 287
Mexico City 189–96
Michelangelo Buonarotti 108, 110, 111
Michelozzo 113, 114
Michigan Avenue, Chicago 80, 86
Michou, Matthieu de 198
Mikhail I, Tsar 198
Miller, Anna 111
Miller, Henry 85
Minas Gerais 256
Ming dynasty 50, 53, 116
Mirza’s Bath, Samarkand 286
missionaries 91, 290
Moldau river see Vltava river
Mole, Naples 219
Mongols 40, 43, 50, 236, 282
Monroe, James 345
Montague, Lady Mary Wortley 335
Montaigne, Michel de 108, 265, 268, 269
Montezuma, Emperor 192, 193, 195
Montmartre, Paris 244
Morris, Jan 347
Moryson, Fynes 21, 248
Moscow 197–206
Moscow Admits a Critic (Bernard Pares) 204
Moses 348
Moskva river 199, 200
Mosque of the Footprints, (al-Aqsam), Damascus 90
Mount Cashell, Lord and Lady 61
Mount of Olives 148, 150
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 334
Mu’jam ul-Buldan (Geographical Encyclopedia), Yaqut al-Hamawi 42
Muhammad (Mohamed, Mahomet) 11, 147, 181, 184, 185, 186
Muhammad Ali 13
Mumbai 207–15
Mundy, Peter 22
Murad II, Sultan 142
Murdoch St, Sydney 302
Murray, John III 25
Muscovy 197
museums 47, 63, 178, 180, 331
Mussolini, Benito 223
Mustanseriya, Baghdad 45
My Life (Leon Trotsky) 180
Nagasaki 316, 320
Naipaul, V. S. 213
Nanjing (Nanking) 50, 53
Naples 216–23
Napoleon Bonaparte 16, 33, 61, 64, 66, 71, 152, 169, 197, 200, 203, 235, 239, 348
Napoleon III, Emperor of France 235, 239, 240
Napoleonic Wars 16, 21, 102
Nash, John 168, 169
Nasser, Gamal Abdel 13
Nelson, Horatio 103
Nero, Emperor 263
Netherlands 21
Neva river 272, 274
New Amsterdam see New York City
New Deal 85
New Museum, Berlin 63
New Orleans 288
New York City 9, 176, 224–33, 290
Nicholas I, Tsar 204
Niebuhr, Carsten 184
Nieuw Markt, Amsterdam 22
Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam 21
Niger river 304
Nile, river 14, 15, 38, 72, 73, 77
Norman Conquest 163
Normandy 74
Notre Dame, Paris 237, 240
O-kon-to see Alexandria
Observations and Reflections (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 250
Olearius, Adam 198
Olympic Games 61, 64, 54
Opium 118
Orient, orientalism 10, 18, 71, 121
Ottomans, Turks 13, 31, 35, 71, 138, 248, 283, 333, 335
Owens, Jesse 66
Palace Hotel, San Francisco 290, 293
Palaces 27, 43, 52, 62, 71, 141, 142, 156, 238, 274, 279, 280
Palazzo Guicciardini, Florence 114
Palmer House, Chicago 83, 85
Pares, Bernard 204
Paris 8, 234–46, 290
Parliament House, Dublin 99
Parsis 208, 214
Parthenon, Athens 31, 35, 38
Patterson, James Laird 17, 37, 90
Paul, R. B. 276
Pausanias 32
Pekin, Peking see Beijing
Peking restaurant, Hong Kong 136
Pericles 32, 34
Perry, Helen 294
Perry, Matthew 310
Persia 11, 42, 47, 71, 138
Peter I ‘the Great’, Tsar 272, 273, 279
Petrograd see St Petersburg
Petrovski, Moscow 202
Pharos, Alexandria 12, 15, 16
Pheidias 33
Pheonix Park, Dublin 104
Philadelphia 290
Philip II (Augustus), King of France 238
Philip II, King of Spain 174
Philip IV, King of France 235, 236
Philip of Macedon 33
Phillips, Capt Arthur 254, 297, 298
Picasso, Pablo 244, 245, 246
pilgrimage 149, 150, 182, 186–88, 262, 264
Pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Pietro Casola) 149
Pinto, Fernão Mendes 51
Piozzi, Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Thrale) 250
Piraeus 38
Pitt Street, Sydney 300
Pitti Palace, Florence 114, 115
Place de la Concorde, Paris 235, 240
Plato 39
Platter, Thomas 164
Plaza del Oriente, Madrid 177
Plaza Major, Madrid 177
Polo, Marco 8, 50
Pompeii 216
Pompey’s Pillar, Alexandria 18
Pont Neuf, Paris 237
Ponte Vecchio, Florence 114
Pontius Pilate 148
Pontormo 114
Port Jackson see Sydney
Porta Romana, Florence 114
Porter, Robert Ker 274
Portraits of Places (Henry James) 331
Portuguese Israelite Hospital (PIZ), Amsterdam 28
Potala Palace, Tibet 156, 157, 161
Potomac river 343, 344, 347
Potsdam 61, 344
Prado, Madrid 174, 176, 177
Prague 247–52
Praxiteles 32
Prince Regent see George IV, King of Great Britain
processions, ceremonies 41, 98
Propylaeum, Athens 63
prostitutes 24
Prussia 60
Ptolemais 33
Ptolemy 14
Pückler-Muskau, Hermann von 102, 168
Pyramids 15
Qala’un, al-Mansur, Sultan 73
Qing dynasty 50, 117, 156, 159
Rabban Bar Sauma 8
Ramadan 19, 42
Rasp-house, Amsterdam 25
Red Army 61, 156
Regent’s Park, London 169
Rembrandt van Rijn 21, 23, 25, 100, 180
Revolt of the Netherlands 20
Rialto bridge, Venice 328
Ribera, Juan Antonio 180
Rio de Janiero 125, 253–60
Riva degli Schiavoni (Venice) 332
Rive Gauche, Paris 235
Road to Oxiana, The (Robert Byron) 47
Rockefeller, John D. 87
Rome 7, 8, 9, 39, 261–71
Rubens, Peter Paul 180
Rue de Rivoli, Paris 240, 242
Runciman, Steven 145
Ruskin, John 329
Sacramento 288
Safarnama (Nasir Khusraw) 71, 148
St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow 203
St Denis Basilica, Paris 234
St Elmo castle, Naples 219
St John the Baptist 91
St Mark’s Cathedral and Piazza, Venice 268, 322, 325, 327, 328, 329, 330, 332
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